Sea gulls and the woodblock (I)

Gulls and the woodblock (I)

In my recent posting I visited the coast and thus encountered many gull pictures. Living near the coast, and weekend-Islander, I am a longtime gull enthousiast and have a great fascination with these wild birds. I will show all wooddblock pictures I have collected over time. By artist that must have been evenly fascinated. The first is by contemporary woodblock artist Australian Tom Kristensen (b. 1962) a strong cleverly designed print and very much showing the strong and individual character of these majestic birds.

Bror Julius Nordfeldt (1906)

Besides the pictures of Gulls on woodblock-prints shown before in recent postings (Tidemand-Johannesson, Lindenmuth, Wyeth) I shall make a distinction in 4 groups. 1) The Japanese classical masters, 2) the Western Masters 1900-1940 artist (all born around 1875-1890) and 3) the "modernistic" Provincetown artists after roughly 1915, 4) Modern prints (as not shown before in recent posts) 

1) The Japanese Masters

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995) Antarctic Gulls

Koson (1877-1945), Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918), Koson

Aoyama Masaharu (1893-1969)

2) The Western Masters

Hans Neumann (1873-1957)

I donot know why Hans Neumann changed his composition nor which of the two is the first edited.

Hans Frank (1884-1948)

Frances Gearhart (1869-1959)

Arthur Rigden Read (1879-1955) "Stormy seas" (priv.coll.)

Allen William Seaby (1867-1953)

Helène Grande-Tüpke (1876-1946)

E. Owen Jones (a completely obscured woodblock artist)

"Gulls and sailing boats"

Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1939)

To be continued with 3) Provincetown artist seagull prints and 4) some modern prints.